Black-browed Fulvetta

Alcippe grotei

The black-browed fulvetta is a 15.5 to 16.5 cm long species of passerine bird in the family Alcippeidae. It is found in subtropical or tropical moist montane evergreen forests, adjacent secondary growth and bamboo in Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam.
Black-browed Fulvetta Lower down on Bach Ma Mountain. Alcippe grotei,Bach Ma National Park,Black-browed fulvetta,Phu Loc District

Appearance

It is often considered conspecific with the mountain fulvetta, "Alcippe peracensis", but the two forms differ in morphology and vocalisations, and are separated altitudinally. Black-browed fulvetta occurs primarily below 400 m, and mountain fulvetta above 900 m.

Both have a warm brown back and tail, whitish underparts, a grey face and a slate grey crown edged below with a black line. Black-browed has brown flanks and a weaker white eyering; it has been described as a bit like a cross between mountain and grey-cheeked fulvetta.

Behavior

The black-browed has a song "yu-chi-chiwi-chuwoo, yu-uwit-ii-uwoo", whereas the mountain is "yi-yuii-uwee-uwee".

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Status: Least concern
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Taxonomy
KingdomAnimalia
DivisionChordata
ClassAves
OrderPasseriformes
FamilyAlcippeidae
GenusAlcippe
SpeciesA. grotei
Photographed in
Vietnam